The Gargoyle: Charlie Angus gets a gift from the Senate

It isn’t every day the Senate sends a gift down the hall of the Centre Block to an NDP MP.

But that’s what happened Wednesday when a Senate committee shipped a copy of the upper chamber’s newly renamed “Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code for Senators” to NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus.

According to a letter signed by the chairwoman and vice-chairman of the Senate’s conflict of interest committee, which oversees the code, Angus didn’t just get things wrong about what’s in the document when speaking in the Commons on June 10, he allegedly made “blatant misstatements” during debate on the main estimates for the Senate. (The NDP’s policy towards the Senate is that it should be abolished, and the party regularly opposes approving spending budgets in the upper chamber.)

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